McCain said he would “consider exchange” in order to bring the soldier back. He did NOT say he would consider an exchange for the five high ranking terrorists we gave up.
McCain’s answer was political in nature and deliberately ambiguous. But it remains this author deliberately reports, without any facts, his personal beliefs of what McCain meant.
What I said. NYT EB is comprised of lazy ideological hacks. They still think that whatever NYT prints becomes the word of god. Intellectual laziness coupled with rote excuses that don’t even make sense any more.